Loads of stugg comes up on googling images related to the term 'Mind's Eye' - not surprisingly a lot of the stuff has an eye in it. I tend to run the 'eye' bit out in my pondering on what a mind's eye might be. Some former science colleagues better at maths than me used to try and describe 'visualisation' - how they could manipulate images of geometry involving complex shapes and transformations. I could never do this and even have trouble working out what happens to, say, door hinges if you turn the door upside down and round-a-bout. I could often 'guess' how a complex system of transformations would end up, but could never 'see the process' as some claimed. This was something of a handicap in some stochastic work with molecule shape.
I'm watching an old Oliver film and have no sympathy with Oliver - all with the other kids and the brilliantly played evil roles. I often have a lot of difficulty 'seeing' what others are being suckered by in propaganda directly and instead a form of critique of the stuff arises. I really dislike, say, Huckleberry Finn being played by the rich director's all too clean kid. I have a cinematic daydreaming imagination, but no imaging comes from words when someone says 'table' - my sister 'sees' gargoyles if you say the word. I'm struck there is no 'eye' in mind's eye even though I might as well be in a cinema when daydreaming. Though one might ask if what I see 'in cinema' relies on past sight - though again I'm not usually 'seeing' recalled events. I find the artist's attempts at 'mind's eye' disappointing. I'm unsure how I notice so strongly that "economics" (a subject I teach with no enthusiasm) is just a 'smell of words' around and obvious failure in human cooperation always leading to a very small number amassing riches. It's like a gas keeping he truth-seeker at bay. We are as far from the double-helix in this as the tribe that denies paternity through sex, investing it instead in ghosts with the 'father role' played by maternal uncles. It's been my view for many years that argument fails except in very special circumstances. The Greeks knew this because equally powerful argument could be adduced for many different views. They invented a kind of "mind's eye" (see Pyhrronism) in which competing arguments could be assessed. This is rather too expert for me. I suspect that what we can't do is strip argument of its propaganda, and suspect again this is a matter of fear of violence in challenging 'deeply' held views - and further that these views are ill-considered dross. One can feel another danger here of the zealot and know-all. In my mind's eye argument comes with smells, emotions, incredulity, doubt,probability ... and the coldest, most lying voice of all is the disinfected smell of the objective voice.
